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The Futhorc, also known as Anglo-Saxon or Anglo-Frisian runes, was a 33-character runic system derived from the 24-character Elder Futhark (Scandinavian runes).
Its name comes from the first six letters of the runic alphabet.
Two theories:
- Developed in Frisia and then adopted in England.
- Brought to England by the Vikings, modified, and then taken to Frisia.
The Latin alphabet began to replace these runes on the 7th century, though some runes continued to appear in texts representing whole words. The Latin alphabet was also extended with the runic letters þorn and wynn.
Location: from North-West Germany to the Netherlands, England and Scotland.
Time: from 400-500 b.C. to the year 1000. The use of runes ultimately died out due to their prohibition by King Cnut.
* Gradually supplanted in England by the Old English Latin alphabets introduced by Irish missionaries.
- Definite phonetic sequence: an alphabet
- Name for each rune: symbolic meaning
- The pictorial representation, itself symbolic.
They are rich in meaning, poetic and spiritual metaphors. This makes of them a magical system.